Silencing of transposons in plant genomes: Kick them when they're down

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Zilberman, Daniel ^a   Henikoff, Steven ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; HISTONES; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC);

ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 19944427670     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-12-249     Document Type: Review

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